Coventry City take on top-flight Italian side Chievo Verona tonight without a couple of key players.

Striker Marcus Tudgay is set to miss the match with a slight thigh injury while skipper and centre-back Reda Johnson is a doubt with a similar problem.

“We have got a couple of injuries,” said manager Steven Pressley.

“Marcus will miss out with a little bit of tightness to his thigh and there’s a doubt about Reda who played 90 minutes for Benin on Sunday and is still carrying a bit of tightness in certain areas from that.

“In reality he probably wasn’t ready for 90 minutes and non of the players are truly ready for 90 minutes yet, so it was probably too much too soon for him and he’s maybe feeling the effects of that.

“So he may miss out tonight. He’s got a chance but there might be two or three of the players who we might ask to play a bit longer, but that’s what you get in the pre-season and nothing ever goes to plan.”

As for what he wants out of the friendly, he said: “We’ll look for the same intensity and work-rate that we saw on Monday night. It will be another real test for us but we’re looking forward to it.”

Having split his players into two teams and given each 45 minutes in the opening two games, the game time will increase tonight and tomorrow with a 60/30 split.

Pressley explained: “The group that will play 30 minutes did additional work on the training ground this morning, including some upper body work, and it will be role reversal on Thursday when they will play 60 minutes and the other 11 will do extra training. But everyone will get exactly the same training time.”

We will be live blogging the game the match this afternoon so you can follow all the action as it happens. Live blog starts at 4.30pm, game kicks off at 5pm.

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